Tag: the Other
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Day 301 of 1000: Hope and the Other
Imagining resolutions to our current fourth turning crisis. Calling on hope, faith, and love.
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Day 208 of 1000: Seeking boredom in 2026
Walter Benjamin’s “dream bird” of boredom which “hatches the egg of experience.” What that means and how Byung-Chul Han reformulated the idea.
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Day 201 of 1000: Seeking the unself
The need to overcome the ego: ideas from Iris Murdoch and Byung-Chul Han.
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DAy 154 of 1000: Finding your equivalent vs experiencing the other
A redditor posts that she wants to find her equivalent. I propose that she’s going about seeking romance wrong.
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Day 98 of 1000: Eros and the Other
A discussion of Byung-Chul Han’s The Agony of Eros. What an erotic (Other-acknowledging) relationship vs narcissistic (self-affirming) relationship might look like.
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Day 93 of 1000: Finding meaning In the achievement society
Living in the achievement society of late modern life, how do you find meaning? Going beyond ambition, achievement, and affluence.